big band

anglicism recorded since 01/08/2020

Spelling variants: big-band

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

208
total occurrences
0.221
per million, total
0.164
per million, last year
0.174
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

big band (164) big bands (44)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 203 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks22% in quotes
In quotation marks (22%) Without quotation marks (78%)
Morphological category
Noun (82%) Adjective (10%) Other / undetermined (8%)
Grammatical genderout of 134 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (4%) Feminine (96%)

Heuristics computed over the contexts of use: the category is inferred from the kind of word preceding the borrowing, so percentages are indicative.

Frequency over time

Occurrences per million words, by week.

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By outlet

Where it is used most.

La Vanguardia 104
El País 25
Rolling Stone 20
El Mundo 17
ABC 11
Jot Down 11
20minutos 6
El Confidencial 6
elDiario.es 4
El Salto 2

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 149
Front page 26
Music 20
Spain 3
Television 2
Opinion 2
Politics 2
Film 1

Words it appears with

Most frequent words in the immediate context of “big band”, according to the corpus examples.

jazz (11) propia (4) arreglos (4) formato (4) orquesta (4) swing (4) orquestas (3) tenía (3) formación (3) formada (3) orquestación (3)

Contexts of use

205 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
big band cuenta de que podía dedicarse a la música cuando realizó una gira con la 'big band' de la Escuela de Música La Creativa. Ahí empezó a conocer su voz El País Front page 10/10/2020
big band el holandés se colocará ante su big band para dirigirla en un concierto a La Vanguardia Front page 11/09/2020
big band . . Reconozco que pedir que la big band suene a la perfección ya mañana La Vanguardia Front page 11/09/2020
big band evidente. Desde el son de big band de Benny Moré en los cincuenta La Vanguardia Front page 16/08/2020
big band moderna, porque esta mítica 'big band' de 'soft' rock El País Front page 01/08/2020

Contextually related borrowings

Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “big band”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.

hard-rock 6 co-occ.
standard 8 co-occ.
crooner 12 co-occ.
easy listening 4 co-occ.
jam session 7 co-occ.
funk 10 co-occ.
funky 6 co-occ.
groove 6 co-occ.
riff 7 co-occ.
swing 6 co-occ.
soundtrack 4 co-occ.
glam 6 co-occ.
show 63 co-occ.
frontman 4 co-occ.
hip hop 23 co-occ.
hit 23 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “big band”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.